We primarily support the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Autism Speaks and Children’s Miracle Network through various in-store donation campaigns and associate volunteerism. Our family of GameStop associates continue to give back in the communities in which we live, work and play, and we also make sure we take care of our own GameStop family through the Gamer Fund Employee Assistance Program.

Current Sustainability Efforts
Beyond our giving power, we also concentrate on reducing our impact to the environment. GameStop has a very unique and robust refurbishment and recycling program that results in significant amounts of e-waste being kept out of landfills. Through our trade-in program, we take in software (CDs) and electronic devices and accessories that are otherwise destined for landfills and either refurbish or recycle them. In 2017 alone, through our U.S. refurbishment center, GameStop refurbished over 6 million pieces of software (CDs) and over 3 million consumer electronic devices, and recycled approximately 2.2 million pounds of e-waste that could not be refurbished by cleaning, repairing or reselling the refurbished products in our different retail channels.

In addition to our significant refurbishment and recycling efforts, GameStop has also undertaken and intends to continue to undertake sustainability efforts that will reduce our carbon footprint. Since 2009, we have partnered with Engie Insight (formerly Ecova) to measure our scope 1 and 2 emissions for our domestic videogame stores and our administrative and logistics facilities. In 2016, our total emissions (MT CO2e) were 94,610 and our emissions intensity (MT CO2e by store) was 22.46. From 2012 to 2016, our total emissions dropped more than 7% and, more importantly, our emissions intensity dropped more than 10%. Those drops were largely due to our increased investment in energy efficient equipment and packaging in our GameStop branded stores and in our logistics and administrative facilities.

We currently have an energy manager that serves as a dedicated resource for our energy management and emissions reduction initiatives and continue to look for ways to further reduce our carbon footprint. In 2017, we launched a store facing sustainability program, Power to the Planet that drove significant changes to store consumption behavior and promoted awareness of GameStop’s sustainability goals. Our expectation is that centralized oversight and administration of our energy management and emissions reduction efforts and our recent sustainability initiatives will yield additional gains in this area. Our progress to date in this area has given us the confidence to explore the possibility of whether, in line with the global shift to a low carbon economy, Game Stop could be a carbon neutral company by the mid-century.

Make-A-Wish Foundation

GameStop is proud to support Make-A-Wish®, the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization. Every day across the country, our associates help transform the lives of children battling critical illnesses by making gaming and shopping spree wishes come true.

For more than 10 years, GameStop has granted 2,500+ in-store shopping sprees and helped raise $5M+ in donations! In 2017, GameStop became 1 of only 15 corporate sponsors to achieve the elite Wish Champions giving level.

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals®

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity’s Miracle Balloon icon. GameStop is honored to support the nonprofit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children’s hospitals need community support, and learn about your member hospital, at CMNHospitals.org.

Autism Speaks

GameStop is proud to partner with Autism Speaks to help shine a light on autism. Many of our associates and customers have shared how the video game and technology products we sell have helped them have meaningful relationships with their child who has autism. This is why GameStop is partnering with Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, to raise awareness and funds for autism research, family services, and to help fund the Autism Speaks Family Services iPad Grant program. Through this program, we are helping provide iPads to financially disadvantaged children and adults with autism, many of whom cannot speak and rely on these iPads to communicate.

Since 2016, GameStop has raised $2.4 million towards the understanding and acceptance of people with autism.

Join the cause and help Autism Speaks achieve its global mission of raising awareness and providing research and family services by following the at autismspeaks.org.

Call of Duty Endowment

The Call of Duty Endowment is focused on identifying and funding the most efficient and effective organizations that get unemployed veterans back to work. Since 2012, GameStop has been honored to partner with Call of Duty Endowment in their efforts to help veterans find high quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them for the job market and by raising awareness of the value vets bring to the workplace. We are pleased to help Call of Duty Endowment make great progress is achieving its ambitious goal of getting 50,000 vets back to work by 2019.

Gamer Fund

The Gamer Fund is an associate-sponsored and managed charitable organization, which provides financial grants to assist GameStop associates and meet their short-term needs in the event of an unforeseen emergency or hardship, such as the loss of a home due to fire, a death of a loved one, or a natural disaster.

This employee charity is a 501(c) (3), and was established in 2012 to provide temporary relief to GameStop associates facing hardship from tragic and isolated events. Endowed with seed donations from GameStop's founders and senior management team, the Gamer Fund is managed and fully funded by GameStop associates.